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Africa (continent)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20104 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

[Women on camels], 1927 - 1928

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/80
Scope and Contents

45 x 65 mm. Showing two women sat on camels. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

Dates: 1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

[Women on camels], 1927 - 1928

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/81
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm. Showing two women sat on camels. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

Dates: 1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Women on the Zambesi, 1975

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 223/5
Scope and Contents

Part of a proposed editorial introduction to David Livingstone's Zambesi journal, 1861-1863. There is a covering letter to D.H. Simpson, 11 June 1975.

Dates: 1975
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Women picking cloves from the ground (the higher branches are usually harvested by men and boys), 1930 - 1950

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/8/1/1/42
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Women saluting, 1908 - 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/116
Scope and Contents

141 x 84 mm. Showing two Hausa women bowing to one another.

Dates: 1908 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Women teachers at Mvumi. The two with babies are the daughters of Andereya., 1900 - 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/208
Scope and Contents

103 x 76 mm. Showing a group of female teachers seated at forms in a classroom.

Dates: 1900 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women wear beaded aprons of goatskin, 1934

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/140
Scope and Contents

A full-length photograph of a Turkana woman.

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Women welcoming the Paramount when he arrived at Limulunga from Lialui in 1942, 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/88
Scope and Contents From the Series: A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates: Other: 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

[Women with large basket on head], 1943

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/112
Scope and Contents

95 x 130 mm. Showing a woman carrying a very large basket of what appears to be sticks and twigs on her head. She is wearing a small 'skirt' made out of beads and leather strips.

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

[Women with pots], 1943

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/99
Scope and Contents

125 x 130 mm. Showing two women with pots at their feet.

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

[Women with pots], 1943

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/100
Scope and Contents

95 x 135 mm. Showing three women, two of whom have large circular pots on their heads, the other is sitting on one behind them.

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

[Women with pots], 1943

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/4/101
Scope and Contents

90 x 125 mm. Showing a group outside a hut or shelter with pots at their feet.

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women wood carriers at Nyasoso, 1938-02-09

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/133
Scope and Contents

42 x 60 mm.

Dates: 1938-02-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

[Women working on the land], 1935 - 1936

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/51
Scope and Contents

The caption below the photograph reads: 'Sometimes the women wear heavy long grass skirts when they are working on the land. (Taken between Mogo and Medje.)'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women’s Training College, Umuahia: students and teacher, 1962

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/185
Scope and Contents

105 x 102 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women’s Training College, Umuahia: students in the library, 1962

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/186
Scope and Contents

110 x 106 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women’s Training College, Umuahia: students with teacher, 1962

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/183
Scope and Contents

80 x 79 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women’s Training College, Umuahia: students with teacher, 1962

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/184
Scope and Contents

105 x 102 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women’s Training College, Umuahia: teacher and student, 1962

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/187
Scope and Contents

157 x 157 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Women’s Training College, Umuahia: teacher and students in class, 1962

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/10/3/188
Scope and Contents

158 x 155 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Women's work, Obuasi, 1938 - 1939

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O/54
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. Woman and child by cooking fire.

Dates: 1938 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Wonderboom tree near Pretoria, 1900 - 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/140
Scope and Contents

205 x 152 mm. Showing the large old wild fig tree (over 1000 years old) in the Wonderboom Reserve. With a horse and cart standing in front of the foliage.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Wood and ivory carver, 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/68
Scope and Contents From the Series: A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates: Other: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Wood cutting party returning, 1901

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/56
Scope and Contents

210 x 85 mm. View of an infantry column with more infantry or wagons in the distance.

Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Woodcarver, 1940s], 1940 - 1949

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/111
Scope and Contents

Showing a carver posed with the tools of his craft and specimens of his work. Photograph by Margot Lubinski.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).